Sunday Snippets!

Hi Playmates!

I have a card for you today, using a floral image called Poppy Bloom by Hobby Art. I love this image and should use it more often! 

My thanks to Jules for the info on the stamp name & maker - which I had forgotten at the original time of posting this blog page. 😘

THE DETAILS:

• First, I trimmed a larger white snippet to fit the card front, then stamped the floral image on to it.
• The flowers were watercoloured. Once the image was dry, I added some Signo glittery pen lines (not showing up in the photo of course!)
• The Visible Image sentiment (from their very useful Birthday Wishes set) was stamped below the main image.
• Next I cut into a fresh A4 sheet of SU Rich Razzleberry to make a mount for the central panel.
• Glued it all together and added it to the card front. 

Over in the SNIPPETS PLAYGROUND, I have published RESULTS from my previous challenge, so please hop over to admire the top picks and discover which 2 lucky playmates won the prize bundles.

Sarn's Snippets!

Hi Playmates

It's Sunday morning and time for a new challenge over at the SNIPPETS PLAYGROUND where Miss Di is in charge for the next fortnight - so skip over there to find out what lovely prize she is offering, and get all the details on how to enter. We're back to normal - no theme this time - just make anything you like with your snippets.

I have not one, but TWO pieces of homework to share with you today! The first is a little 3" x 3" card and the other piece, further down the post, is an ATC. They both use cute and quirky little birds from my recently acquired Aall & Create stamp set: #464 "Strange Birds".

Aall & Create bird stamped onto a gelli print snippet then cut out
and glued on to the flower stem.

Green snippet used for the flower stems.

Next up is the ATC:

ATC measuring 2.5" x 3.5"

The ATC was created with blue and orange snippets, trimmed to the usual ATC size. I simply brushed Black Soot DI through a stencil to create a leafy branch. The bird was stamped onto a gelli print snippet, then I added a bit of detailing with black and white pens. I cut the bird out with scissors and glued him onto the stencilled branch!

I added the sentiment from the same stamp set, then brushed the edges of the blue piece of card with Black Soot DI before mounting it onto the orange snippet.

MATERIALS:

• Funky Fossil stencil 'Meadow Flowers' for the leafy branches.
• Aall & Create 'Strange Birds' #464 stamp set
• Blue and orange snippets by Stampin' Up! & beak coloured with a blue pen.
  
• Bird stamped onto a gelli print snippet

See HERE for another card I made with the same set!

Snippets Playground Celebrations!

Hi Playmates!

It's Sunday morning and time for a new challenge over at the SNIPPETS PLAYGROUND with yours truly in charge for the next fortnight. 

It's another special challenge to celebrate the 12th year of Miss Di holding the Playground keys. In honour of this event, Di and I have decided to add another theme to the challenge. So - please submit your homework on the theme of "CELEBRATION". You are free to interpret this as you wish - any celebration will count (new baby; birthdays; special anniversary or any other celebratory event) as long as it is obvious what the celebration is on your project.

To comply with the challenge theme, I've chosen a special birthday celebration.

A diamond fold springy card.

Envelope already made. 
Remaining snippets of burgundy paper,
plus other pieces of card.

Hadn't made one of these cards for AGES and it was fun to revisit this springy card shape which, happily, folds flat for posting.

Over to YOU now . . . check out your pile of snippets, make something with them on the CELEBRATION theme, then come and play. There are 2 bumper prizes  full of festive goodies available, so you won't want to miss out. Plus, you can put on your party frock and come to the Treehouse where there will be champagne and lots of party food available on the evening of 8th Jan (the actual hand-over date all those years ago!).

You can make this shaped card from any size rectangle as long as you mark the quarter and half points, then score and cut as per the diagram below.

Sunday Snippets - Bunny is back!

Here's wishing you a LOVELY CHRISTMAS.

Not only is it Sunday morning and time for a new challenge over at the SNIPPETS PLAYGROUND  - but its CHRISTMAS EVE too! Are you excited? I know I am!

Miss Di and Dudley are in charge of the Playground for the next fortnight - and this time around there is a THEME for you to comply with!

The theme is ANYTHING BUT CHRISTMAS - so we don't want to see anything festive on your snippet makes at all! As it's the last challenge of the year, Di has a super prize on offer. Run off and find out what I'm talking about . . . HERE.

My 3" x 6.25" custom made card.

Snippets used.

To comply with the non-Christmas theme - my homework features a birthday card. I got "Bunny" back out and gave him a (PaperArtsy) window to sit in. I cut into a whole sheet of 6"x6" brick patterned paper, but mounted it onto packaging snippets. The Bunny and sentiment are also die-cut from packaging snippets and the flowers were stamped a couple of times onto a gelli print snippet then cut out with scissors and stuck on. I added a bit of brown watercolouring to the left hand side of the window to give it some depth.

I know you're all busy with Christmas, but when you get a chance to play with your snippety craft stuff, hop along to enter the SNIPPETS PLAYGROUND and have some fun. Di, Dudley and I have plenty of mince pies and a lethal rum punch on the go! Plus some sausage rolls etc. Come and find us up in the treehouse. You can also read about the Nativity Play/Panto/Fiasco!

Bird on a branch scrapling

Hi Friends 

I so enjoy getting out my gelli plate and making prints that I have quite a lot of them to hand from recent sessions. Then I go and use a little bit of one and end up with even more snippets in my collection!!!

For the above card, I die cut a leafy branch from a dark blue gelli print then stamped the bird onto a snippet of an orangey print. I added a bit of colour to the bird's beak, wing and crown then cut him out with scissors.

The card blank is a white “scrapling” left over from cutting my own card blanks from A4 card. I decided to use it in the landscape orientation for a change. The branch was glued directly to the card. The bird was added on top with a foam pad for a little dimension. I custom-made an envelope to fit the odd-sized card.

DETAILS: 

• The bird comes from an Aall & Create stamp set called "Strange Birds" and is still only £4.80 HERE (no affiliation). 
• The lovely leafy sprig was snipped out of a die-cut circle ("Circle of Leaves" by Simon Says Stamp) - recently gifted to me by a lovely friend. 
• The nice bold sentiment is part of the PaperArtsy ESN37 set by Sara Naumann.

Snowy Snippets!

Hi Playmates!

I'm always happy when I'm using up snippets! Here, I've used a gelli print snippet, as well as some SU Pool Party card. Hmm, just looking at this photo makes me think I need to run off and add a gem in the centre of that snowflake . . . best go and do that before I forget!

Showing the Pool Party snippet I used for the snowflake.

Di has published RESULTS from her previous challenge, so please hop over to the SNIPPETS PLAYGROUND to admire the top picks and discover who won the prize. 

There's still time to add your name to the cast list of the Nativity Play - details on the Snippets Playground post - some major parts are still vacant!

NB: Di's next Playground Challenge - starting on Christmas Eve - will have a theme of ANYTHING BUT CHRISTMAS! So please enter any snippets card you like, as long as it has nothing whatsoever to do with Christmas! Non-compliant entries won't be eligible for the draw and may be deleted - and you really don't want to miss the chance of her prize - trust me!

Have a gelli good Christmas!

I have some Christmas cards to share with you today. Well, it is that time of year, after all!

I took a dark blue gelli print and cut it into 3.5" squares. The prints were liberally splattered with a white Posca pen and left to dry. Next, I stamped some Christmas images by Sara Naumann (PaperArtsy) over the top using VersaMark ink, sprinkled them with white embossing powder and heat set them. Once I had flattened the paper back out again, I mounted each piece onto navy blue card and then on to a card front. I used up 2 snowflake snippets on a couple of the cards. 

All 4 cards are made from one gelli print.
Cards measure 4.75" x 4.75"

A closer look!

Splattered, heat embossed and a snowflake snippet added.

And there we have it, a grungy, splattered set of Christmas cards all ready for next year!

Leafy snippets

I'm sharing a 6" square card with you today. Apart from the card base, everything else is a snippet!

6" x 6" card full of snippets

Some of the snippets I used.

   

An angled shot!

Materials:

• White snippets (die-cut with stitched square dies from The Works)
• Gelli print snippets for the central square; die-cut leafy sprig (Pink & Main Leafy Dies 1) and the edge embellishments.
• "Sarn Candi" created by punching out 2 small circles from the pink gelli print, shaping them and adding them to the tiny edge strips with a foam pad.

This week's ALLSORTS CHALLENGE theme is STITCHING - REAL OR FAUX. As this card uses stitched square dies I'm able to enter - although there is always the "anything goes" option.

The beautiful Pink & Main leaf die set was recently given to me by a wonderful friend. Mwah!

Sunday Snippets!

Hi Playmates

There's a new challenge to join in with at the SNIPPETS PLAYGROUND with Yours Truly in charge for the next fortnight. Why not use up some snippets and come over to play?

For my homework I'm sharing two ATCs made with my fave flower stamp. All the pieces of card are snippets.

Two Artist Trading Cards (2.5" x 3.5" each)

Hope to see you over in the Snippets Playground. We're a friendly bunch, so come and play. Plus there's a nice prize up for grabs if you follow the rules.

Adventures in Gelli Printing (2)

Hi Friends

Following on from last Wednesday's gelli printing adventures, today, I'm sharing more cards and an ATC using the golden circle print (shown further down this post). I chopped the gelli print circle into pieces, ensuring some of the circle was visible on each piece. 

I then set about adding stamping and die cuts over the top, then matting and layering to make 3 greetings cards and an ATC. 

It takes an AGE for stamping to dry if it goes over the top of an acrylic painted print . . . so to speed things up, I usually stamp with Versafine Clair black ink, then heat emboss with clear embossing powder. 

MATERIALS:

• Gelli print
• Stamps by Woodware (art nouveau birthday sentiment), Inkylicious (silhouette flowers), Visible Image (grungy numbers), Aall & Create (row of crosses) and PaperArtsy (myth quote)
• Matted and layered using Stampin' Up! card and a bit of packaging.

I used the golden circle gelli print shown below. The circle was created with bright orange paint, but I pulled the print after brayering a thin layer of translucent gold paint on top. The gold acrylic paint I used is Abstract by Sennelier (Iridescent Gold #028) available in pouches from Hobbycraft in the UK for around £4 (it will last you ages).

Close up of the embossing on the ATC:

Just look at the gloss on that embossing!

So there you go - a double whammy. First I had all the fun of creating gelli prints, then I got the opportunity to be creative all over again by turning them into cards and ATCs (and an envelope shown at the bottom of my previous post HERE).

And finally . . . I was inspired to cut-up my gelli printed circles and make cards this way after seeing THIS BLOG POST by Tricia Morris via Pinterest. No point keep pinning stuff to your boards if you never USE them is there? LOL!

Snippets Challenge 29th Oct - 11th Nov

Hi Playmates

Well autumn is truly upon us and it's lovely to have it in full flow after a late start.

We're starting to gather wood for the Snippets Playground Bonfire Night on 5th November (next Sunday eek!), but once again, out of respect for our pets, there will not be any whizzbangs! Just the bonfire, jacket potatoes, pumpkin soup and some buttered rolls to keep us playmates warm!

A6 sized card using up snippets of black card and a gelli print

Snippet used for bird die.

I mounted a gelli print snippet measuring 1" x 3.5" onto a black snippet strip measuring a quarter inch larger all round. Then I die cut the bird from a further black snippet. Glued everything together and attached to the card front after stamping a very small text/ledger stamp by Gummiapan along the left hand edge. Decided it would make a good masculine card, so I added a Happy Birthday sentiment too.

Miss Di is in charge of the SNIPPETS PLAYGROUND for the next fortnight - so skip over there to find out what lovely prize she is offering, as well as all the details on how to enter. 

Adventures in Gelli Printing (1)

Hi Friends

Tried out my 6" round gel plate for the first time the other day, and got my 8" x 10" plate out while I was at it! Want to see what I got up to? This post is a bit photo heavy, so you might want to grab a cuppa!

Here are the cards first:

2 x greetings cards and an ATC

Materials:

• A few gel prints made with acrylic paints, leaves and a brayer.
• Bird silhouette die by The Works.
• Leafy circle die "Circle of Leaves" by Simon Says Stamp (recently given to me by a very kind friend).
• Leafy sprig on the ATC - part of a leaf die by Pink & Main called "Leafy Dies 1" (recently given to me by the same very kind friend - don't you just love happy mail?!)

Here are two masculine cards made with the blue circle gelli print:

Apologies for the ATC turning up again in this photo!

Here are the gel prints I made beforehand. 

• Today's cards come from the 6" blue circle and the 8"x10" orange/pink print. I'll show you the cards made with the top golden circle in another post. 

The orange/pink leafy die on the ATC comes from middle print shown below:

Here's an envelope I made with the bottom gel print shown in the above picture. It's so pretty IRL:

It's VERY easy to get carried away making lots of prints and then you find yourself wondering what to do with them all - so I thought I'd share a few ideas here. 

Please come back next Wednesday for another post on my gelli printing adventures!

Sunday Snippets!

Hi Playmates!

Today I have a CAS butterfly card to share with you. 

After all the stormy weather this week there are precious few butterflies fluttering around now! However, I stamped some onto a gel print snippet, then cut them out and glued them to the card front. I also heat embossed the sentiment with gold EP. 

5" square card

Attempting to show the shine of the heat embossing!

The sentiment and butterflies are from separate Visible Image stamp sets.

Di has published RESULTS from the previous challenge, so please put your wellingtons on and puddle-jump over to the SNIPPETS PLAYGROUND to admire the top picks and discover who won the prize.

Snippets Challenge: 15-28 October

Hi Playmates!

It's Sunday morning and time for a new challenge over at the SNIPPETS PLAYGROUND with yours truly in charge for the next fortnight.

Here's my homework:

ATC measuring 2.5" x 3."5"

The wonderfully arty trees are by Chocolate Baroque and were kindly sent to me by a lovely blog friend (mwah!).

To make the ATC, I took a white snippet that was slightly smaller than 2.5" x 3.5" and added a bit of stencilling to the background, along with some grounding for the trees image. The trees were coloured, cut out and glued on. I chose a Tim Holtz Small Talk sticker which I coloured with the same green ink, chopped up and glued to the ATC. I doodled a border around each word to make them stand out a bit more.

Finally I mounted the white snippet onto a grey piece of card measuring the correct ATC size!

As stated at the beginning of this post, I shall be running amok in the SNIPPETS PLAYGROUND for the next fortnight - so skip on over to find out what lovely prize is on offer, and get all the details on how to enter. Good luck!

Autumn Leaves for Allsorts!

Hi Friends!

I have an autumnal card for you today, just right for adding to the ALLSORTS CHALLENGE (#748) this week!

A6 sized card

The above card started out like this:

Home made texture paste added!

. . .  because I was messing about with some texture/modelling paste I made with talc, PVA glue and white acrylic paint (although you could add ANY colour of acrylic paint to the talc and glue)! Anyway, I scraped the homemade paste* through a pretty stencil and left it to dry.

Next, I added a variety of Distress Oxide inks, which was NOT very successful colour-wise. So I got a baby wipe out in a vain attempt to mop up some of the mess, but a happy accident occurred and I liked what the baby wipe did to the overall colour.  Then I sprayed some water onto the card front so that the Oxides reacted with it! Once dry I stamped some splatters over the top. See below:

Distress Oxides, baby wipe &
water + some ink splatters!

Wondered what to do with the card front after that - but as luck would have it, I'd used some autumnal colours on a recent gel print, so I die-cut some leaves from it, plus a branch for the leaves to hang from and glued them on. I also added the word "moments" using first, second and third generation stamping.

Die cuts and words added.

However, the leaves looked a bit lost on the card front . . . so, to remedy that, I decided to add a brown shadow using the same Walnut Stain Distress Oxide ink I'd used for the words. The shadows really help the leaves to pop. Success!

Finished result (with the shadow added).

Unless you're a card maker, you would never know how much work went into this would you?!

Please take a look at my lovely blogpal VAL'S leafy card for another idea on using these dies.

*There are a number of YT videos on making your own paste, but I most liked Chrissie Stokes's version. However, I didn't measure anything, I just put a dollop of glue and some acrylic paint into a pot and added talc until I was happy with the consistency!!! I kept the remaining paste in a small jar that would otherwise have gone out into my recycling bin! Making your own paste is WAY cheaper than buying it already done for you and is LOADS of fun. Plus it smells nice and so will your craft room afterwards!

Snippets Playground Challenge 1st - 14th October

Hi Playmates

It's Sunday morning and time for a new challenge over at the SNIPPETS PLAYGROUND with Miss Di in charge for the next fortnight.

Here's my homework: 

MATERIALS:

1. Die cut birthday sentiment: from a set of PP Craft dies (white snippet)
2. Die cut flower: Kindly sent to me by a lovely blog friend (thanks!)
3. Gelli print snippet made with acrylic paints; brayer; bubblewrap; Aall & Create reverse text stamp
4. Purple mount trimmed snippet

Now it's your turn to use up some of your own snippets so you can come and play in the Snippets Playground. Remember to leave a comment if you wish to be in the prize draw. You have until 14th October to get your homework in on time!

Happy crafting.

Snippets Playground Challenge: 17th - 30th September

Hi Playmates!

I'm hosting the new challenge over at the SNIPPETS PLAYGROUND for the next fortnight, so why not reduce your mountain of snippets and make something so that you can play along?

Here are some snippety cards made with my favourite flower stamp set (Aall & Create set #986 called 'The Good' by Tracy Evans). I decided to use up some white strips left over from cutting my own card bases.

The card sizes vary a little, but all measure approx 3" x 6".
Main image mounted onto a snippet of SU Pool Party card stock (centre card),
with the cards either side using up packaging for the mats!

DL and A6 sized cards.
Snippets used: black and white pieces of card and an inked up piece using an embossing folder,
plus some green patterned SU papers - all trimmed to fit.

The focal points of the above 5 cards started out life like this:

9 white snippet strips - uninspiring or what?!

Here are the 9 strips all stamped up.
The top 4 strips will be used to fussy cut flowers
for later use (like those seen to the right of them).
The bottom 5 strips are the ones I used to make the 5 cards shown in this post.

    

Congrats if you made it to the end of this longer post! 

I wish you a very happy day.

Sarn on Sunday!

Hi Playmates!

I have published RESULTS from the previous challenge, so please hop over to the SNIPPETS PLAYGROUND to admire the top picks and discover which lucky playmate won the prize.

Meanwhile, here's a card full of collage for you to feast your eyes on!

Card measures 3¼" x 4¾"

The entire card is made from snippets of left over card and paper from other projects, all glued into place on the card front, including a leafy die-cut that was waiting to be used up.

The paddling pool has been a very popular hang out in the Snippets Playground during the UK heatwave this week, plus I've been adding extra ice to the Treehouse cocktails. It's all good!

Wishing you a very happy day. 

Flowery Thanks OLC

Hello lovely readers!

Today I have a One Layer Card (OLC) for you.

Card measures 5" x 5"

The pretty flower and surrounding foliage is from the multi-step stamp set 'Beautiful Day' by Altenew. 

The sentiment is from an Art Deco set by Woodware.

Snippets Playground Challenge: 3rd - 16th September

Hi Playmates

It's Sunday morning and time for a new challenge over at the SNIPPETS PLAYGROUND where Miss Di is in charge for the next fortnight - shiny whistle at the ready in her attempt to keep us all under control!!!

My homework is a very positive ATC:

ATC measuring 2½" x 3 ½" made entirely from snippets.

The white snippet was stamped, coloured and mounted onto a piece of packaging.

The fox is part of Aall & Create’s 'Up Up & Away' stamp (set #467) and I watercoloured him using Distress Oxide inks. I think the sentiment was part of a magazine cover gift. I distressed the white edges with a Tim Holtz tool.

That's all from me today folks! Keep on using up those pretty snippets of yours, then come and play in the SNIPPETS PLAYGROUND.

Flowery Thanks

Hi there!

Thanks for dropping by today. I have a one layer card to share, simply stencilled down the left hand side, then stamped with the flower and sentiment. I used Kitsch Flamingo Distress Oxide to paint the flower with, as well as for inking through the stencil.

Wishing you a very happy day - hope you find the time to do something you enjoy.

Too Kind OLC

Hi Friends

I have a one layer card (OLC) for you today. 

My lovely blog friend Vicky often masks off her card fronts before inking and stamping, so I took a leaf out of her book and had a go at it myself! I was very pleased with the results (thanks Vicky!).

A6 size card

1. As mentioned above, I used low tack masking tape all along the card front edges.
2. I stamped a very large Carabelle stamp into the unmasked area in light brown ink.
3. Using a make-up brush, I brushed light brown ink from the left hand corner upwards and outwards.
4. Used a 3-step Stampin' Up! set of flowers called 'Too Kind', I stamped the green stems first, then the 2-step flower heads.

New Snippets Playground Challenge 20th Aug to 2nd Sept

Hi Playmates

There's a new challenge to join in with over at the SNIPPETS PLAYGROUND with yours truly in charge for the next fortnight. Why not use up some snippets and come over to play?

I've been playing with some jelly. Oops, no, I mean I've been playing with my gelli PLATE! (Not sure that sounds much better really!!!).

In any case, I made a gelli print which I stamped all over, intending to make it into a pocket! Unfortunately, I was a bit too enthusiastic with my scissors, which meant I couldn't fold the pocket up properly. So, I salvaged what I could of the print and (so far) I've made a few ATCs with it:

The 2¼" x 3¼" gelli print snippet has been stamped, then 
a leafy stencil was used with DOX inks for a focal point.
The Tim Holtz sticker was brushed with ink, then glued on.
All mounted onto a snippet of Alpen box packaging!

I stamped circles and a few splatters over the
Alpen box packaging "kraft" card, then added a
small snippet of the salvaged gelli print to the left and
some punched flowers to the right.
Flat back gems were glued to the flower centres.

A tiny snippet of the same salvaged gelli print is at the
bottom left of this ATC. The whole ATC front (from packaging) was covered
with a coloured book page snippet which had been gessoed first.
Writing and leaf sprig added freehand.

Just a couple of bits of the salvaged gelli print snippets.

That's all from me today folks! Keep on using up those pretty snippets of yours, then come and play in the SNIPPETS PLAYGROUND.

Di has a snippets card to share with you HERE along with the latest Pupdate on Dudley's antics.